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  2. Kerr metric - Wikipedia

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    The Kerr metric or Kerr geometry describes the geometry of empty spacetime around a rotating uncharged axially symmetric black hole with a quasispherical event horizon.The Kerr metric is an exact solution of the Einstein field equations of general relativity; these equations are highly non-linear, which makes exact solutions very difficult to find.

  3. Schwarzschild geodesics - Wikipedia

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    Geodesic of a photon emitted from a light source located on the event horizon of a black hole and back to it, with an impact parameter > =. Geodesic of a photon emitted from a light source located on the event horizon of a black hole, with an impact parameter b = b c r i t = 3 3 2 r s {\displaystyle b=b_{crit}={\frac {3{\sqrt {3}}}{2}}r_{s ...

  4. Schwarzschild coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The extension of the exterior region of the Schwarzschild vacuum solution inside the event horizon of a spherically symmetric black hole is not static inside the horizon, and the family of (spacelike) nested spheres cannot be extended inside the horizon, so the Schwarzschild chart for this solution necessarily breaks down at the horizon.

  5. Event horizon - Wikipedia

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    In astrophysics, an event horizon is a boundary beyond which events cannot affect an outside observer. Wolfgang Rindler coined the term in the 1950s. [1]In 1784, John Michell proposed that gravity can be strong enough in the vicinity of massive compact objects that even light cannot escape. [2]

  6. Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates - Wikipedia

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    The black hole event horizon bordering exterior region I would coincide with a Schwarzschild t-coordinate of + while the white hole event horizon bordering this region would coincide with a Schwarzschild t-coordinate of , reflecting the fact that in Schwarzschild coordinates an infalling particle takes an infinite coordinate time to reach the ...

  7. Horizon (general relativity) - Wikipedia

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    Event horizon, a boundary in spacetime beyond which events cannot affect the observer, thus referring to a black hole's boundary and the boundary of an expanding universe; Apparent horizon, a surface defined in general relativity; Cauchy horizon, a surface found in the study of Cauchy problems; Cosmological horizon, a limit of observability

  8. Rindler coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Even if we pick units where =, the magnitude of the proper acceleration will depend on our choice of units: for example, if we use units of light-years for distance, (or ) and years for time, (or ), this would mean = light year/year 2, equal to about 9.5 meters/second 2, while if we use units of light-seconds for distance, (or ), and seconds ...

  9. Reissner–Nordström metric - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Schwarzschild radius of the Earth is roughly 9 mm (3/8 inch), whereas a satellite in a geosynchronous orbit has an orbital radius that is roughly four billion times larger, at 42 164 km (26 200 miles). Even at the surface of the Earth, the corrections to Newtonian gravity are only one part in a billion.